Paris fashion week marches on to Haute Couture from menswear. Day 1 of the shows had Schiaparelli, Iris Van Herpen, Giambattista Valli to Christian Dior.

The labyrinth; irregular, almost impenetrable, like a secret garden. This is the image that inspired Maria Grazia Chiuri, Artistic Director of the women’s collections for the house of Dior, for her first Haute Couture
season.

Fascinated by the myriad of interpretations, she perceived her adventure into the heart of the Dior world as being akin to entering a labyrinth, the way sprinkled with the flowers, plants and allegorical images that form part of the iconography of these places.

The result is evening dresses in change ant and powdery colors (mauve, blue, pink, gray) which evoke the passing of the seasons and of life itself, and whose layers of tulle trap exquisite flowers, like those we
preserve in our most prized herbariums.

Shaping a new story that rewrites the House’s lexicon, translating it into shapes and cuts that are the imprint of the silhouettes, dreams and desires of today’s women.

Maria Grazia Chiuri embraces the art of divination, transforming it to embellish her creations: embroidered stars stand out against gold-colored tulle, tarot symbols are hand-painted on the white panels of long dresses which can be found inside a black coat, and adds a further element to the feminine tuxedo.

Dior

Francesco Scognamiglio

Giambattista Valli

Iris van Herpen

Ralph & Russo

Schiaparelli

The last day of Paris Fashion Week fall-winter menswear shows had everything from mixed style to television stars with the City gearing up for couture week starting today.

Lanvin was little edgy with the new creative director Bouchra Jarrar showcasing oversized, slouchy and elongated silhouettes. Double-breasted jackets came alongside baggy pants and student-like check sweaters and scruffily long sleeves with models sporting tight scarves with the word “NOTHING”.

While Kenzo’s theme was rawness and exposure in its 90-piece collection. There was two-piece hybrid skiing outfits in raincoat yellow and winter blue and hardy rubber boots. Huge fluorescent bubbles jackets fused with multicolored blown-up Argyll check were combined with tiger-print skirts.

Paul Smith’s fashion show entitled “WO MAN,” showcased both men’s and women’s styles like Kenzo, offlate is been a trend at Paris Fashion Week celebrating androgyny and shunning sexual difference.

As for the collection there was Check, patterns, trench coats mixed with quirky pointed snake skin boots, sneakers and loose sweaters with ethnic motifs in Cerulean blue, vermillion, olive mixed with blacks and beiges

Julien David

Kenzo

Lanvin

Officine Générale

Paul Smith

Sankuanz

Sean Suen

Thom Browne

The penultimate day of Paris menswear had Dior Homme, Balmain homme , Hermes to name a few. Designer Kris Van Assche produced a hard-edged fall-winter menswear collection that explored the darker side of fashion. Shimmering black leather gloves, dark sneakers, dark capes completely enveloped the body opened the Grand Palais collection. Fur coats came in unnatural hues of flaming russet and cobalt blue and mixed with urban prints.

The Japanese fashion house Sacai show had all from ponchos, duffel coats, bubble jackets, chiffon gowns, jeans, velvet coats, and bobble hats in palette of gray marl, coral, celestial blue, metallic green, ruddy brown and vivid cadmium yellow.

AMI Alexandre Mattiussi

Avoc 

Balmain

Dior Homme

Études

Hermès

Sacai

White Mountaineering

Wooyoungmi

Moving on to day 3 of colourful fall-winter menswear shows in Paris, was mixed high culture, androgyny and streetwear, with the highlight being on Paris Jackson, the daughter of the late pop icon Michael Jackson, making an appearance in the FROW at Givenchy’s library show.

As for Givenchy there was circles, stars and stripes in bold colors and patterns that blurred the lines between masculine and feminine in signature penchant for sportswear styles coming in sneakers with horizontal lacing and sweaters that evoked a loose basketball top silhouette.

Long, masculine check shirts sported the myriad frills of an apron or delicate blouse. The androgynous musing reached a climax when Kendall Jenner strutted out ravishingly in a full-on, embellished blue check dress with arm slits.

Cerruti came with ultra-elegant tailoring in luxe materials in Sporty silhouettes elevated with a chic palette and flawless details. Comme des Garçons Homme Plus show “Boyhood,” dressed her young models in soft, flowing skirt-shorts reminiscent of Japanese courtly garments and billowing, ankle-length trousers worn under blousy suit jackets.

22/4 Hommes

Ann Demeulemeester

Berluti

Cerruti

Christian Dada

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

Givenchy

Junya Watanabe Man

Juun.J

Maison Margiela

In its 18th year, Lakmé Fashion Week unveiled a stellar line-up of shows, designers and creative presentations and concepts with Manish Malhotra, Purnima Lamba and Jaspreet Chandok reveal the bigger and better season as it moves to the iconic JioGarden at Bandra Kurla Complex.

Anita Dongre, Tarun Tahiliani, Monisha Jaising, Narendra Kumar, Ritu Kumar, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Abraham & Thakore, Aneeth Arora, Falguni Shane Peacock, Payal Singhal, amongst others have come together to present the best of the fashion through innovative and inclusive collaborations from the 1st February to the 5thFebruary 2017.

The season’s tribute to the rich heritage of Indian hand-woven luxury will be presented by Rajesh Pratap Singh, Aneeth Arora, Abraham and Thakore, Naushad Ali, Soham Dave, alongside a show by IMG Reliance Ltd dedicated to Kutch artisans during the day showcasing artisans from kutch such as Somaiya Kala Vidya, Chaman Siju, Sufiyan with Madame Hall, Shrujan.